relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/1899/
title: Linking promotion of improved sorghum and pearl millet varieties with community based seed multiplication: the rural livelihoods programme
creator: Mackinon, J
creator: Monyo, E S
creator: Dube, N
subject: Millets
subject: Sorghum
description: Five NGOs (Oxfam Canada, Management Outreach Training Services for Rural and Urban Development [MOTSRUD], Dabane Trust, Zimbabwe Project Trust [ZPT], and Organization of Rural Associations for Progress [ORAP]) are collaborating on a pilot program on rural livelihoods in Zimbabwe. The program aims to improve nutrition levels and reduce vulnerability to drought in 15 target rural communities in drought-prone regions. SMIP was requested to participate because of its expertise on sorghum and pearl millet — crops that have a comparative advantage in drought-prone areas. SMIP's role is to provide improved varieties and training on small-scale seed production techniques to farmers, project managers, and extension workers involved in the program.
publisher: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
date: 2000
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/1899/1/ISMN41_18-19_2000.pdf
identifier:   Mackinon, J and Monyo, E S and Dube, N  (2000) Linking promotion of improved sorghum and pearl millet varieties with community based seed multiplication: the rural livelihoods programme.  International Sorghum and Millets Newsletter, 41.  p. 19.  ISSN 1023-487X